Suomussalmi

Runosong collection place · Finnish tradition (JR corpus)

Tradition	Finnish (JR corpus)
Poems	1,093
Verses	17,669
Distinct words	18,029
Collection years	1800–1967
Collectors	Alopaeus, Aulis, Heikki
Coordinates	65.0551, 29.1534

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Distinctive vocabulary

Words unusually characteristic of poems collected here, compared with the whole corpus — not the most common words.

Word	Occurrences
emosi	46
pahasi	36
neiti	51
nuolemahan	14
turvu	17
työsi	30
parantamahan	23
vanhemmalla	18
urohon	21
turpasi	14
halkiele	9
menös	7
ellös	17
ohon	11
varsin	33
tuntemahan	22
tahi	40
luojan	39
valtavanhempasi	15
sie	38

Villages the songs were collected in

Of the 1,093 poems collected in this place, 554 name a smaller place on their archive record; the remaining 539 records give no finer place, or one of a kind this list does not cover. The counts reflect how often collectors wrote an address down, not how much was sung. Names are shown as written on the records, so they span different eras’ commune divisions; a place may be where the song was written down or where the singer came from, and a name marked (?) was uncertain in the record itself. All these names, across every collection place, can be searched in the Place Name Index.

Hietajärvi (175)